"Thomas More: Politician, Martyr and Saint"

Presented by Paul Griffiths, PhD

St. Thomas More is excited to welcome Paul Griffiths, PhD; Warren Professor of Catholic Theology, Duke Divinity School. He has held academic positions at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

He has published nine books as sole author, and seven more as co-author or editor. The most recent is Song of Songs: A Commentary (Brazos Press, 2011). His current project is a book with the working title: Contracting Intimacy: A Theology of Sex, Marriage, and the Law.

His main intellectual interests and topics of publication include: post-1950 Catholic philosophical theology; the philosophical and political questions arising from religious diversity; fourth- and fifth-century African Christian thought (especially Augustine); and Gupta-period Indian Buddhist thought.